Essays about: "Oedipal"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 essays containing the word Oedipal.

1. 1. The Schizoid Subject : Filth and Desire in Samuel R. Delany's Hogg

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

   Author : Sophia Fredriksson; [2015]
   Keywords : Gilles Deleuze; Félix Guattari; Samuel R. Delany; Hogg; Anti-Oedipus; Schizoanalysis; Transgressive fiction;

   Abstract : This thesis investigates in which ways Samuel R. Delany’s novel Hogg challenge the discourse of normality as stipulated, supported and maintained by the capitalist Oedipal repression of desire. READ MORE

3. 2. When the cat is away, the (m)other will play : regression and identity formation in Neil Gaiman's Coraline

   University essay from Sektionen för humaniora (HUM)

   Author : Emma Agnell; [2014]
   Keywords : literary; psychoanalytic; uncanny; coraline; neil gaiman; identity; superego; identity formation; regression;

   Abstract : This essay examines Neil Gaiman’s Coraline from a psychoanalytic perspective, with focus on the formation of the super ego. While the young girl’s identity formation has been examined before, the general focus is often oedipal. In this essay, I choose to step away from the oedipal and examine the psychosymbolism throughout the novella. READ MORE

4. 3. Deadly Desire : A Psychoanalytical Reading of Desire and Death in the Poetry of Dylan Thomas

   University essay from Engelska

   Author : Marie Elisabeth Karlsson; [2012]
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   Abstract : Dylan Thomas' work is often explored in light of the poet himself, and he has been referred to as modernism's l'enfant terrible or even described as a late romanticist. The aim in this essay is to explore the poetry without regard to his personal life as well as highlight previously ignored oedipal elements in said poetry. READ MORE

5. 4. "I Really Am a Stranger to Myself": A Lacanian Reading of Identity in John Banville's Eclipse

   University essay from Institutionen för språk och litteratur, SOL

   Author : Ulla Kerren; [2012]
   Keywords : Banville; Lacan; Derrida; identity;

   Abstract : This essay engages in a Lacanian reading of identity in John Banville’s Eclipse and argues that the protagonist Alex Cleave illustrates certain of Jacques Lacan’s ideas concerning subjectivity and the subject. Alex Cleave has a fragmented sense of identity and experiences alienation as well as loss and lack of authenticity. READ MORE

6. 5. Violent Discoveries : Three theories on the protagonist's journey towards self-discovery through the use of violence in Chuck Palahniuk‟s Fight Club

   University essay from Avdelningen för humaniora; Akademin för utbildning och ekonomi

   Author : David Hurtig; [2011]
   Keywords : Fight Club; Chuck Palahniuk; Oedipal; masculinity; Marxism; violence;

   Abstract : The following essay analyzes the novel Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk from three different perspectives; Marxism/capitalism, masculinity, and the Oedipal complex. The aim is to understand why the protagonist in the novel uses violence as a means of expression. READ MORE